Word: whatness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a third way-to keep on overspending, keep on going into debt, even in good times, as if debt didn't matter. Nobody seriously tried to justify this as a lasting policy. But it was just what the U.S. was currently doing.
He had been making $30,000 a year as a lawyer in St. Louis. Living modestly by Washington standards, he had gone steadily into the red on the White House job. For the last 2½ years, a St. Louis friend whom Clifford describes only as "an older man of...
"Tell me what the temperature is right this minute. It's 81, isn't it?" Then he added, with a nod toward his daughter Margaret: "She owes me one dollar if it's 80 or over." The captain flushed, looked as though he wished he were dead...
General Douglas MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most...
On trial with him was Helen Campbell, a grandmotherly spinster who, as Thomas' chief secretary, had carried out the salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the...